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St Martin, St Barts: Ravaged by Irma, spared by Jose
Sep 10, 2017 (AFP)
The agency had issued its highest warning, saying the Category 4 Hurricane Jose could become a "dangerous event of exceptional intensity". "I'm relieved, almost...
Irma pummels Cuba as Florida hunkers for a hit
Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)
Irma's blast through the Cuban coastline weakened it to a Category Three, but it is still packing winds of 125 miles (200 kilometer) per hour. The eye of the st...
Mexico quake kills 65, deadly storm strikes
Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)
Officials raised the death toll from Thursday night's quake as more bodies were found in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. In the town of Juchitan, Oax...
What we know about hurricanes Irma and Jose: facts, figures, forecast
Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)
After making landfall in Cuba's Camaguey archipelago late Friday, Irma is now bearing down on Florida, where authorities have ordered 6.3 million people to evac...
Hurricane Irma largely destroys French and Dutch parts of St Martin
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
"It's an enormous catastrophe. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed. I'm in shock. It's frightening," said Gibbs, a former French lawmaker, speaking o...
With no government help, Mumbai flood victims are on their own
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
Her family's tiny ground floor apartment in central Mumbai is one of hundreds of thousands of homes in India's financial capital that regularly flood during the...
'Devastation' as Hurricane Irma slams Caribbean
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, the rare Category Five hurricane churned westward off the northern coast of Puerto Rico early Thursday on a ...
So how do mega-storms get named, anyhow?
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
Meanwhile, Jose -- still a tropical storm -- is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, while Katia in the Atlantic is threatening to ramp up to hurricane force in the c...
By any name, major tropical storms are bad news
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
Even as a waterlogged Houston struggles to recover from Hurricane Harvey, another ferocious storm, Irma, is ripping across the Caribbean towards Florida. At ful...
Mighty Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Caribbean island of Barbuda
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
The eye of the rare Category Five storm made landfall on Barbuda -- part of the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda -- just before 0600 GMT with winds gus...
Tourists evacuate as Category 5 Hurricane Irma nears
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
The monster hurricane coming on the heels of Harvey, which struck Texas and Louisiana late last month, is expected to hit a string of Caribbean islands includin...
In Irma's path, Haitians face storm's fury alone
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
Irma, a Category Five storm with 185 mile-an-hour (300 kilometers per hour) winds, is on track to swipe Haiti's northern coast Thursday, but few Haitians in its...
Monster Hurricane Irma batters Caribbean islands
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
As the rare Category Five storm barreled its way across the Caribbean, it brought gusting winds of up to 185 miles per hour (294 kilometers per hour), weather e...
Hurricane Irma barrels towards Caribbean
Sep 05, 2017 (AFP)
The monster hurricane coming on the heels of Hurricane Harvey that struck Texas and Louisiana late last month is expected to make landfall along the string of F...
Leeward islands on alert, major Hurricane Irma churns toward Caribbean
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
A hurricane watch is in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St Kitts, and Nevis; Saba, St Eustatius, and Sint Maarten; Saint Martin and Saint Bar...
Improving earthquake resistance with a single crystal
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
Tohoku University researchers and colleagues have found an economical way to improve the properties of some 'shape memory' metals, known for their ability to re...
Hurricane Irma takes aim at eastern Caribbean
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
Irma, now a category three hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 kph), should continue strengthening through Tuesday, the NHC said in an adviso...
Urban sprawl in spotlight after historic Houston floods
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
A residential and commercial construction boom in the Greater Houston area, even in floodplains, that went practically unrestricted has drastically reduced the ...
Death toll in Mexico from Tropical Storm Lidia rises to 7
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
Five of the deaths occurred at the resort town of Cabo San Lucas, the local government said. Erasmo Palemon, attorney general for the state of Baja California S...
One dead as heavy flooding displaces thousands in Nigeria
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
"We were able to speak to a woman and one of her children was killed in the night, two are in the hospital as a result of the collapse of a building," said Hele...
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